salmon ladder

English

Noun

salmon ladder (plural salmon ladders)

1. A fish ladder built for salmon.
   • 2019 December 4, Paul Stephen, “At the heart of the community”, in Rail, page 58:

     Thousands of visitors also desend each year on the Pitlochry Dam and Salmon Ladder that were built nearby as part of the Tummel hydroelectric power scheme from the late 1940s.

2. (sports, exercise) A physical-training exercise where the exerciser moves a crossbeam to progressively higher positions on a pair of posts while hanging from it with their arms.
3. The apparatus used for this exercise.